Wattree 07/26/2015
dagblog
A friend of mine, who's a Christian and
a very insightful writer, recently wrote an article that started me
thinking about both Christianity and organized religion in general.
In his article he asked a pivotal question that I believe
goes right to the core of Christianity - "What if Jesus was merely
the teacher of a social gospel and moral philosophy . . .?"
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In my opinion, that question captured the essence of what
Jesus was all about. Jesus wasn't a superhuman; he was simply
a very intelligent and insightful human being, a philosopher. But
after he espoused his philosophy, ignorant, self-serving, and
superstitious people - people who believed in talking snakes - took
his words out of context and turned him into some kind of
superhuman being, and gave him powers that contradicted the laws of
nature, the universe, common sense, and God.
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If we hadn't been conditioned all our lives to believe in this
counterintuitive nonsense it would be clear to us that the
Christian belief system holds just about as much validity as
voodoo: Dead men don't walk. No man can walk on the water. No
man can tell the Red Sea to scoot over. And if Adam and Eve were
the first people on Earth, where did the people come from that Cain
went to live with after he slew Abel?
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Take a moment to consider the following. All of your
religious beliefs are merely an accident of birth? If you'd
been born in Israel, chances are you'd be a Jew; if you'd been born
in Iran you'd be a Muslim, or China, a Buddhist. So your
religion isn't so much God-inspired as it is a result of the
environment that you were raised in. You were SOCIALIZED into
believing what you believe. Thus, if you truly believe that a
person born in Israel, Iran, or China, is going to Hell because
they don't believe what you believe, you're stupid.
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This is a serious problem, because people are doing more
"believing" than thinking. Hoards of people are taking MAN'S word
for the fact that the Bible is "the word of God." So they're
placing all of their "faith" in MAN, not God - and a very evil man,
at that. On the other hand, we KNOW that God gave us our minds (By
God, I mean whatever force is responsible for the existence of the
universe and what we consider reality). So we need to start
using it.
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Take Black people for example. Black people are some of the most
devout Christians in the world, even though they were taught
Christianity while they were tied up next to the mules - and every
rule, law, and tenet of Christianity was being brutally violated
while they were being indoctrinated - yet, they still believe it,
that a blond haired, blue eyed Scandinavian was born in the desert
with supernatural powers.
No wonder so many Black people are finding it so hard to get their
act together; they're walking around in a state of somnambulism,
and it seems that the worse they're treated, the more they cling to
that ridiculous myth - "Lord, please forgive the White boy
who walked in our church and blew nine of our member's brains out."
The reason for that is simple. They've been conditioned to believe
that no matter how bad they're treated, they shouldn't worry about
it, because God is going to take care of them when they die.
OH, REALLY!!!? Then why is everybody else killing one
another trying to get theirs now - including their preachers?
It's the perfect hustle - it keeps Black people docile, it
keeps them thinking that the worse their treated the more God is
going to love them, and the powers that be don't have to worry
about anybody ever coming back and telling the people that it's a
lie.
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another thing that should be considered. If God had decided to put
religion on Earth to guide man, don't you think he'd have had sense
enough to create just ONE religion so religious dogma wouldn't be
the most hate-inspiring, murderous, and destructive forces on
Earth? Look around you - here in America, in the Middle East, and
literally all over the world - organized religion is THE
primary source of most of the agony, pain, and misery
on the planet. Thus, organized religion isn't a blessing, it's a
curse. Would a loving God place a curse like that on mankind?
I don't think so. God gave us spirituality, which is found
within. It's a state if existence that's only between you, God, and
the universe. Man has absolutely nothing to do with it, because
everything man touches, he corrupts. God made birds to fly, fish to
swim, and man to THINK, not to follow a users guide written by
other men.
Man is much too ignorant, self-serving, and greedy to write
anything sacred. Yes, man says the Bible was "inspired" by God, but
he also said that God told him in the Manifest Destiny to slaughter
the Native Americans and take their land, and Zionists are saying
the very same thing with regard to the Palestinians today. Do
you actually believe that God is telling them to kill children? And
what about Boko Haram, do you really believe God is telling them to
kidnap young women and sell them into sexual slavery because he
doesn't want women to get an education? That's not God saying that;
that's self-serving men placing their words and beliefs in God's
mouth, and the exact same thing is happening here in this country.
Organized religion is man-made nonsense designed to manipulate the
ignorance of the masses and promote the prejudice and greed of the
elite. You can trace virtually any form of bigotry in a
straight line right back to some form of religious dogma. So again,
organized religion is a curse on man, that's been created by man,
and it's ultimately going to lead to our destruction - even global
warming is being defended in the name of God.
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About the Bible
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The Bible that Christians Worship today was compiled and “bless” by
the Catholic Church, not God. Any book that disagreed with the
Catholic Church was banned. What Christians call "The Holy Bible,"
and what these preachers run around thumping, wasn’t even put
together until almost 400 years after the death of Jesus. So
everything in it is hearsay. In terms of years, at the time the
Bible was complied, they were twice as far away from the life and
times of Jesus Christ as we are away from George Washington today.
So in reality, they didn’t know fact from fiction, any more than we
know whether or not George Washington really chopped down a cherry
tree:
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"For the first 300 years of Christianity, there was no Bible as we
know it today. Christians had the Old Testament Septuagint, and
literally hundreds of other books from which to choose. The
Catholic Church realized early on that it had to decide which of
these books were inspired and which ones weren't. The debates raged
between theologians, Bishops, and Church Fathers for several
centuries as to which books were inspired and which ones weren't.
In the meantime, several Church Councils or Synods, were convened
to deal with the matter, notably, Rome in 382, Hippo in 393, and
Carthage in 397 and 419. The debates sometimes became bitter on
both sides. One of the most famous was between St. Jerome, who felt
the seven books were not canonical, and St. Augustine who said they
were. Protestants who write about this will invariably mention St.
Jerome and his opposition, and conveniently omit the support of St.
Augustine. I must point out here that Church Father's writings are
not infallible statements, and their arguments are merely
reflections of their own private opinions. When some say St. Jerome
was against the inclusion of the seven books, they are merely
showing his personal opinion of them. Everyone is entitled to his
own opinion. However, A PERSONS PRIVATE OPINION DOES NOT CHANGE THE
TRUTH AT ALL. There are always three sides to every story, this
side, that side, and the side of truth. Whether Jerome's position,
or Augustine's position was the correct position, had to be settled
by a third party, and that third party was the Catholic
Church.
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"Now the story had a dramatic change, as the Pope stepped in to
settle the matter. In concurrence with the opinion of St.
Augustine, and being prompted by the Holy Spirit, Pope St. Damasus
I, at the Council of Rome in 382, issued a decree appropriately
called, "The Decree of Damasus", in which he listed the canonical
books of both the Old and New Testaments. He then asked St. Jerome
to use this canon and to write a new Bible translation which
included an Old Testament of 46 books, which were all in the
Septuagint, and a New Testament of 27 books" (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080928064041AATOZUD).
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SO THE POPE HAD SPOKEN, AND THE ISSUE WAS SETTLED. THUS, WHAT
CHRISTIANS REFER TO AS "THE HOLY BIBLE" IS NOT THE WORD OF GOD,
IT'S THE WORD OF POPE DAMASUS I.
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